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sweetshop

sweetshop noun: a shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.

sweetshop: a shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery
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Noun

sweetshop (plural sweetshops)

  1. A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
    • Likewise, when I go into my local sweetshop to buy a chocolate bar, the shopkeeper doesn't look me up and down, notice I'm a bit overweight, and suggest I pop round to the greengrocers next door and buy an apple instead.2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, Rail, page 54
  2. (euphemistic, slang) A drug dealer.

sweetshop meaning in Arabic, Malay, Indonesian and Persian

sweetshop in Arabic

shop selling predominantly confectionery
صَنَاعَةُ الْحَلْوَيَات ṣanāʕatu l-ḥalwayāt

sweetshop in Malay

shop selling predominantly confectionery
penganan

sweetshop in Indonesian

shop selling predominantly confectionery
toko kue

sweetshop in Persian

shop selling predominantly confectionery
قنادی qannâdi
More languagesFewer languages
sweetshop in Vietnamese
bánh cửa hàng

Synonyms of sweetshop

Forms of sweetshop

pluralsweetshops
alternative formsweet shop
alternative formsweet-shop

Origin of sweetshop

From sweet + shop.

Questions about sweetshop

What does sweetshop mean?
Sweetshop means a shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
What is sweetshop in Arabic?
Sweetshop in Arabic is صَنَاعَةُ الْحَلْوَيَات (ṣanāʕatu l-ḥalwayāt). See Sweetshop meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is sweetshop?
Sweetshop is a noun.
What is the plural of sweetshop?
The plural of sweetshop is sweetshops.

Words near sweetshop in the dictionary

  1. sweetroot
  2. sweetroots
  3. sweets
  4. Sweetser
  5. Sweetsers
  6. sweetshop
  7. sweetshops
  8. sweetshrub
  9. sweetshrubs
  10. sweetsmelling
  11. sweetsome

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